Jack Heath

When Agent Six, a member of The Deck, a group fighting against their corrupt society, discovers that he is the product of an illegal experiment by the evil Lab, he takes dangerous steps to discover the truth about himself.

The Lab

Lynn Braden

Agent Six of Hearts is a sixteen year old enhanced human who works for a group called The Deck. Each card deck suit is in charge of a different aspect of the organization. The Hearts are in charge of missions against enemies of the group. Agent Six of Hearts is the most successful of any soldier, but if The Spades knew about Six being the product of an experiment, they would have him terminated. Luckily, Six's handler, King knows about him, but has kept his identity a secret from the other branches of The Deck. Six's most recent mission is to find The Lab where he was created and shut it down so that others like him can't be developed into an army.

The Lab is a futuristic, scifi adventure with lots of action but very little character development. We know that Six is a genetically engineered clone and that there are probably others like him, but we don't get much about who he really is inside for most of the story. The other characters are not developed at all, so we never really learn their motivations or reasoning. However, a reluctant middle grade reader would probably love this story and its outcome. Overall, The Lab is a good beginning to the Agent Six of Hearts series, but its success depends on exposure to a very limited audience.

The Lab

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